NCHawker
Well-Known Member
Staring down receivers isn't all that uncommon in college, especially this time of year. DBs are not necessarily reading QB anyway.
Kennyfromminne
Well-Known Member
My exact thoughts
Joshbrown
Well-Known Member
It used to be that guys who played professional football had the freedom to do something else in the off-season. It wasn't a year-round commitment. Admittedly that died out when players started making the big bucks. That's when NFL teams started demanding year-round activity commitments to football.
Also once upon a time college football was a seasonal commitment. But just like the NFL, that is now a 12 month obligation.
I know Kirk expects those kids in the weight room 340 days a year. I know that he does that cuz we are a "developmental" program. But also cuz his peers make that same demand. So now college football operates like professional football.
Do I agree with it? No. These are kids in college, wanting a social life, wanting to get laid, wanting to join a fraternity, wanting to choose classes based on their major. College football should be a seasonal commitment.
Y'all remember Randy Duncan. Well his son Matt went to Iowa on a football scholarship. We were in the same fraternity. We were friends. He left the football program after a year (maybe 2, it was decades ago) to focus on academics. He later went to Drake law school and became a lawyer. In 2009 he took his own life. He was a good person, he expected a lot from himself. I don't know about his internal struggles, but I always got the impression he expected himself to be a Rhodes scholar, Football All-American and Fraternity President all at the same time. These are student-athletes who are also kids. The kid part and the student part gets pushed aside and all they are now are football players. That's wrong . . . and it will always be wrong.
Also once upon a time college football was a seasonal commitment. But just like the NFL, that is now a 12 month obligation.
I know Kirk expects those kids in the weight room 340 days a year. I know that he does that cuz we are a "developmental" program. But also cuz his peers make that same demand. So now college football operates like professional football.
Do I agree with it? No. These are kids in college, wanting a social life, wanting to get laid, wanting to join a fraternity, wanting to choose classes based on their major. College football should be a seasonal commitment.
Y'all remember Randy Duncan. Well his son Matt went to Iowa on a football scholarship. We were in the same fraternity. We were friends. He left the football program after a year (maybe 2, it was decades ago) to focus on academics. He later went to Drake law school and became a lawyer. In 2009 he took his own life. He was a good person, he expected a lot from himself. I don't know about his internal struggles, but I always got the impression he expected himself to be a Rhodes scholar, Football All-American and Fraternity President all at the same time. These are student-athletes who are also kids. The kid part and the student part gets pushed aside and all they are now are football players. That's wrong . . . and it will always be wrong.
Husky28
Well-Known Member
Ditto
Before the big bucks made it into professional sports most pros had to work in the off season to make more money for the family.
I remember a Sports Illustrated cover picture in 1966 or so that showed the first baseball $100,000 lineup of the St. Louis Cardinals. Now $100,000 a year in the mid-60's was big bucks but most baseball players back then didnt make close to that money. Many pros were in sales jobs in the off season or jobs they could work at for 4 months or so at a time.
I remember a Sports Illustrated cover picture in 1966 or so that showed the first baseball $100,000 lineup of the St. Louis Cardinals. Now $100,000 a year in the mid-60's was big bucks but most baseball players back then didnt make close to that money. Many pros were in sales jobs in the off season or jobs they could work at for 4 months or so at a time.
Fryowa
Administrator
This.
Schwartz really is the Rachel Maddow/Glenn Beck of Iowa football "reporting." Going back even to the Jane Meyer fiasco he writes absolutely nothing of substance when it comes to the actual sports side of things, and uses his platform here and elswhere as his own personal soapbox. Several times I've thought to myself, "Why doesn't he just freelance an op-ed and quit wasting the time of people who want to read actual sports reporting?" And then I snap back into reality by realizing that what he writes is complete drivel and he wouldn't find anyone to pay him to write opinion pieces.
The stuff he puts out is just a bush league regurgitation of what other talking heads are already writing about, and he uses being a Hawkeye fan to be able to mask it as real reporting.
He click baited all of us with that ridiculous headline. Then...he writes about a scentence and a half that basically says, "Nathan Stanley is pretty good but he stared down his receivers so that might be kinda bad," and then proceeds to write us a drunken opinion piece about the state of college football. It had ZERO to do with the Hawkeyes. Nothing.
If you're going to write a shitty opinion piece, write a shitty opinion piece. But don't headline it being about the Hawkeye football program, write two amateurish sentences saying "So and so is really good" like a person who's never seen a game, and use it to dive into some convoluted mess of an article telling us about your feelings. Either write about the Hawks or don't.
Regarding concessions mentioned, I would suggest they take some of the parking west of Kinnick and temporarily gate it in on gamedays and allow vendors in to set up for food (food carts, food trucks, etc.). That would alleviate a good bit on the west side. So access only through Kinnick and you can go out there during the game to get food. I'd say beer too but that probably wouldn't happen soon.
Fryowa
Administrator
I don't necessarily disagree with his point, but I would think HN would be able to see that horrible clickbait article for what it is and either re-headline (which would mean it wouldn't work for a Hawk website because it has nothing to do with the Hawks), or tell him to resubmit something relevant.
Most media outfits are plenty ok with click bait.. Not sure what HNs policy is on it but I doubt they'd have much of a problem with what he did there... It wasn't like he went from talking Iowa football to Colin Kaepernick. What he was talking about was big picture college football which includes Iowa... Not that I'm taking sides here just my observation. I'm not the biggest fan of his but I read some of his stuff.
